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Whereas roots of globalization are far reaching, it is primarily a modern age phenomenon. Modern business operation and … economy and the long-term tendency towards globalization in manufacturing, trading and consumption in the world. Containing … both risks and opportunities, globalization is a problem of manifold nature. For some it means regression and falling into …
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Activists around the world seek to expose a global system that fails to tax multinationals adequately and thus deprives governments of needed revenues, with profound effects for development in the world's poorest nations. These tax activists have sparked a global movement, with groups all over...
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-labor ethics field brought by the globalist (neo-liberalist) movement to the Human Resource Management actions. To the extent in …
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This paper seeks to understand the success of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in creating a platform for the development of ISO 26000, a standard of organizational social responsibility (OSR). The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, neo-institutional theory...
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The issue of outsourcing jobs abroad stirs great emotion among Americans. Economic free-traders fiercely defend outsourcing as a positive for the U.S. economy while critics contend that corporate desire for low wages solely drives this practice. In this study I focus on a specific type of...
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The India's most exploited people, the Dalits, have been raising voice against the ongoing process of globalisation fearing that it would gradually lead to a total dismantling of whatever protective and developmental measures, including the reservation policy, guaranteed in their favour in the...
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What allows MNCs to maintain their sustainability practices over the long term? This is an important but under-examined question. To address this question, we investigate both the development and sustenance of sustainability practices. We use the dynamic capabilities perspective, rooted in...
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Much has been written about the current crisis in the global financial system, and many thoughtful analyses have examined the causes and consequences of that crisis. This paper joins those analyses that argue that the crisis reveals flaws in the theoretical underpinnings of capital market...
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In this paper, we investigate how corporate social responsibility (hereafter CSR) practices of domestic Croatian mid and large size firms differentiate them on foreign markets. Still, in order for export organizations to realize benefits offered by CSR, export organizations need to identify...
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We present a simple model to illustrate how birthplace diversity may affect team performance. The model assumes that birthplace diversity increases the stock of available knowledge due to skill complementarities and decreases effciency due to communication barriers. The consequence of these two...
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